Manufacturing and Transportation

We also have extensive experience advising transportation companies regarding acquisitions; labor matters, including collective bargaining, rights and interest arbitration, and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and other administrative proceedings; the financing and leasing of transportation assets, including aircraft engines, maritime vessels, shipping containers and other equipment; compliance risk assessments, including compliance with United States and International modal transportation regulations; the issuance of letters of credit securing industrial development bonds and mortgage loan financings; and representing government entities on bond offerings to support transportation infrastructure.

Our work for manufacturing and transportation clients has included advice, counseling and representation involving:

• patent protection, litigation and infringement;
• product Liability and other personal injury suits;
• internal investigations;
• international trade agreements and disputes;
• contract, unfair trade practices, antitrust and other commercial litigation, mediation and arbitration;
• national and international joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions;
• real estate transactions;
• environmental compliance;
• energy;
• tax, including tax exemptions, audits and economic development abatements;
• reorganization and bankruptcy;
• employment, labor and employee benefits matters;
• financing transactions;
• regulatory matters.